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Plural of fem

regular plural

The plural of fem is fems.

Forms of fem

Singularfem /fɛm/
Pluralfems
Countablecountable

Fems in a sentence

  • Oral history gave them an opportunity to share their vision of the world across generations, while giving us a chance to imagine the pleasure and pain of daily life for butches and fems in an earlier period.2014, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Routledge...
  • Will answer all, esp-fond of gay fems.1982 December 25, Robert Anderson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 23, page 15. From the entry esp.
  • No historical anecdote had ever brought home to Fiben so well just how much agnosy and craziness poor human mels and fems had endured.2011, David Brin, The Uplift War, →ISBN. From the entry agnosy

Meaning of fem

  1. noun Synonym of femme.
  2. noun A feminine or effeminate person.
  3. adjective Feminine, effeminate.

Full definition of fem

Questions about the plural of fem

What is the plural of fem?
The plural of fem is fems.
Is fem countable?
Fem is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fem (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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